This is why nobody likes art students.

u don't always need so much plot. sometimes u just wanna call ur movie murder party and have a crazy, wild, hilarious chaotic, well, murder party. "don't make this political this is about art!"

This movie is good because art students deserve to be brutally murdered while high on crank.

Everybody dies, but death is best when Jeremy Saulnier is at the helm.

Me after watching this: "Ughhh... OK then?"
Other reviews on Letterboxd: "oh, what a wonderful satire of NY art scene!"

Basically, I guess I just don't hate art students as much as everyone else? Or I don't care enough to find this movie as entertaining as most people do? I'll just stick to Blue Ruin, Green Room, and Saulnier's future films. Who else is excited for Hold the Dark?

Fühlte sich für mich und ob seiner Laufzeit ein wenig länger an, als er musste. Entschädigt aber mit einem doch recht saftigen Finale, bei dem auch schon mal eine Kettensäge durchs Gesicht gezogen wird. Letzteres ist insofern schon ein wenig lustig, wenn man sich die weiteren Werke Saulniers ansieht, die mit ihrer Gewalt so wohl dosiert umgehen und eben deshalb so viel schmerzvoller wirken. Als noch etwas ungelenkes, aber durchaus versiertes Frühwerk und Kammerspiel-mit-Kunstblut-Koks-und-Medium-Kunstsatire-Happen für zwischendurch: ok. Allzu viel mehr sollte man aber nicht erwarten.

What seemed like yet another torture porn movie quickly morphed into a pretty amusing satire on the New York art scene. The satire itself isn’t particularly sophisticated, merely highlighting the ridiculousness that surrounds modern art and the one-upmanship of the artists, but whilst the targets are easy it doesn’t stop the film from being entertaining.

Murder Party may have a victim/hero but he is merely a bit player to the artists who intend to kill him in order to win a lucrative arts grant. Although there is a reasonable amount of bloodletting the film is more interested in telling jokes at the artist’s expense as they become more preposterous and more like caricatures as the night progresses. It’s a very slight film, and probably won’t stand up well to repeat viewings, but for a low budget feature the script is sharp, the performances are solid and it rarely outstays its welcome.

in my experience no satire of pretentious art students ever works because the satire creator never sees themselves as one of the pretentious ones.

An art collective invites an unwitting Joe Blow to his own murder on Halloween, but best-laid plans fall through upon discovering they're as brickheaded as their victim.

After a start that's raring to go, this horror comedy quiets into lots of character-driven talk that's just not my type of humor. The cardboard-clad man's captors in-fight and ruminate over intellectual claptrap (along with an awful inclusion of an awful epithet) while on various drugs and truth serum. Subtext seems to be the preception of art students mulling more over creation than actually engaging in the process.

Murder Party picks back up after the group's tensions boil and ropes loosen, but the mayhem is little reward for its sagging midsection. Pretension isn't much fun even with some melting faces and corded chainsaws. Watched via Magnet Releasing's DVD.

It has some small stretches of boredom, but Murder Party has a very funny way of using its dialogue to keep the story moving forward and when it arrives at the climax it truly lives up to its title! 7/10

A fun, comedy of errors, horror movie.

i thought it was gonna be a bad movie that's so bad its good but noooooo. like wtf was that n - word scene ?!??!

For some reason I kept getting Cecil B. Demented vibes from the art kids.

Definitely wasn’t expecting the comedic tone after already watching Saulnier’s other films.

It was more fun when it got gory.

I don't even know why I watched this movie. Had to give it 2 tries to get through it, and even then I found myself wholely uninterested. I think the biggest problem is that there isn't really anything to draw you in. The MC has less than no personality, the side characters are too erratic and the plot may as well be non existent, stuff just happens. This movie is under an hour and a half and yet it still felt too long for what it was. Add to that the shaky special effects and visuals, and there just isn't really much to love here. The only real saving grace it has is that it's occasionally funny, but honestly, not nearly funny enough.

never trust an art student

1st viewing

Viewing Notes: streamed on Shudder

Definitely late on this one. A dollar tree DVD worth a buck! Low budget silly fun.

31 Days Of Halloween 2020
9/31

More like Jeremy MAUL-nier, amirite?

This film is a gift to mankind and we need to talk about it more

Definitely late on this one. A dollar tree DVD worth a buck! Low budget silly fun.

31 Days Of Halloween 2020
9/31

Favorite from the Clusterfuck trilogy. And yes it's mostly based on nostalgia but the randomness still holds and still makes me want to vomit, in a good way.